Copyright Law of the United States [Kindle Edition]

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Preface This volume contains the text of title 17 of the *United States Code*, including all amendments enacted through the end of the second session of the 106th Congress in 2000. It includes the Copyright Act of 1976 and all subsequent amendments to copyright law; the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984, as amended; and the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act, as amended. The Copyright Office is responsible for registering claims under all three. The United States copyright law is contained in chapters 1 through 8 and 10 through 12 of title 17 of the *United States Code.* The Copyright Act of 1976, which provides the basic framework for the current copyright law, was enacted on October 19, 1976 as Pub. L. No. 94-553, 90 Stat. 2541. Listed below in chronological order of their enactment are subsequent amendments to copyright law. Chapters 9 and 13 of title 17 contain statutory design protection that is independent of copyright protection. Chapter 9 of title 17 is the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984 (SCPA), as amended. On November 8, 1984, the SCPA was enacted as title III of Pub. L. No. 98-620, 98 Stat. 3335, 3347. Chapter 13 of title 17 is the Vessel Hull Design Protection Act (VHDPA). It was enacted on October 28, 1998 as title V of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), Pub. L. No. 105-304, 112 Stat. 2860, 2905. Subsequent amendments to the SCPA and the VHDPA are also included in the list below, in chronological order of their enactment. For transitional and supplementary copyright provisions that were enacted as part of the Copyright Act of 1976 and the DMCA, but which do not amend title 17, see the Appendix.

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3.0 out of 5 stars You get what you pay for, March 19, 2008

By	C. M. Newman "Chris Newman" (Santa Monica, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Copyright Law of the United States (Kindle Edition)

The text of the code is all there and searchable. It has not been edited or optimized for Kindle use however, so there is no clickable table of contents or internal hyperlinks when other provisions are cross referenced. Nor is there any annotation or legislative history. So it's handy if you want to be able to carry the entire code around with you, and you can create your own index of links by investing time in highlighting, but nothing has been done to make this user friendly.